JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER.
1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
OTHER NEPAL QUAKE STORIES
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/05/israel-67-years-old-today-may-1415.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/04/hundreds-to-thousands-dead-as-nepal.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/04/2300-dead-in-india-quake-as-67.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/04/4000-so-far-have-been-killed-in-nepal.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/04/4500-dead-8000-injured-in-nepal.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/04/over-5100-killed-10000-injured-in-78.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/04/5500-are-now-killed-in-nepal-78-quake.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/05/6000-are-now-killed-in-nepal-78.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/05/6700-are-now-killed-in-nepal-78.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/05/7000-are-now-killed-in-nepal-78.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/05/7100-are-now-killed-in-nepal-78.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/05/7367-are-now-killed-in-nepal-78.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/05/7700-are-now-killed-in-nepal-78.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/05/7710-are-now-killed-in-nepal-78.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/05/7759-are-now-killed-in-nepal-78.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/05/8019-are-now-killed-in-nepal-78.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/05/another-major-73-quake-in-nepal-today.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/05/8250-are-now-killed-in-nepal-78-73.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/05/8276-are-now-killed-in-nepal-78-73.html
EARTHQUAKES
ISAIAH 42:15
15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
UPDATE MAY 16,2015-12:00AM
8,476 ARE NOW KILLED IN THE NEPAL 7.8-7.3 QUAKES.19,721 INJURED.331,000 HOMES DESTROYED. AND WITH THIS NEW 7.3 QUAKE IN NEPAL.ANOTHER 117 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED AND 3,161 MORE INJURED.THIS 7.3 QUAKE COMES ONLY 17 DAYS AFTER THE 7.8 QUAKE.ALSO IN THIS 2ND QUAKE A HELECOPTER IS MISSING WITH 8 ABOARD.AND THEY SAY THIS LOOKS LIKE A GIANT GRAVEYARD IN NEPAL AND KHATMADU.SO JUST THINK WHAT HAPPENS TO ISLAM WHEN THEY COME AGAINST ISRAEL.AND 300 MILLION ISRAEL HATING RUSSIAN-MUSLIMS ARE NUKED.THIS NEPAL DOUBLE QUAKE IS A PREVIEW OF THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS SLAGHTER IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE.TO GET RID OF 1/4 OF ISLAM FOR KILLING JEWS AND CHRISTIANS AROUND THE WORLD.THE HELICOPTER HAS BEEN FOUND ON A MOUNTAIN.AND ALL 8 PEOPLE ON BOARD ARE KILLED.
UPDATE AFTERSHOCKS FROM 7.8-7.3 QUAKES AT NEPAL AT 11AM
5.3 South of Africa 2015-05-15 09:15:57 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
2.9 6km SW of Volcano, Hawaii 2015-05-15 08:29:18 UTC-04:00 2.7 km
4.7 Izu Islands, Japan region 2015-05-15 06:56:40 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
2.7 26km NNW of Pahala, Hawaii 2015-05-15 06:51:49 UTC-04:00 0.9 km
2.5 6km SW of Volcano, Hawaii 2015-05-15 06:40:32 UTC-04:00 3.2 km
5.5 70km N of Alotau, Papua New Guinea 2015-05-15 06:30:37 UTC-04:00 32.4 km
5.0 162km WSW of Vaini, Tonga 2015-05-15 06:21:36 UTC-04:00 161.4 km
2.5 5km SW of Volcano, Hawaii 2015-05-15 05:38:22 UTC-04:00 2.5 km
2.9 34km SW of Ferndale, California 2015-05-15 05:20:09 UTC-04:00 20.4 km
4.7 47km SW of Puerto San Jose, Guatemala 2015-05-15 05:08:26 UTC-04:00 35.0 km
2.6 6km SW of Volcano, Hawaii 2015-05-15 04:52:25 UTC-04:00 3.0 km
2.5 97km SE of McGrath, Alaska 2015-05-15 04:39:24 UTC-04:00 0.0 km
2.8 23km ENE of Mooreland, Oklahoma 2015-05-15 03:21:55 UTC-04:00 5.0 km
4.7 151km W of Lata, Solomon Islands 2015-05-15 02:35:01 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
4.6 41km N of La Serena, Chile 2015-05-15 02:05:24 UTC-04:00 52.1 km
4.3 119km SE of Iquique, Chile 2015-05-15 02:02:26 UTC-04:00 108.8 km
2.7 42km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico 2015-05-15 01:39:51 UTC-04:00 52.0 km
4.5 23km SSE of Blenheim, New Zealand 2015-05-15 01:34:35 UTC-04:00 10.4 km
3.1 2km WNW of Pawnee, Oklahoma 2015-05-15 01:29:54 UTC-04:00 5.0 km
2.8 7km SSW of Volcano, Hawaii 2015-05-15 01:10:05 UTC-04:00 3.5 km
3.6 110km N of Loiza, Puerto Rico 2015-05-15 00:51:31 UTC-04:00 86.0 km
2.8 68km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico 2015-05-15 00:47:12 UTC-04:00 61.0 km
2.7 6km SW of Volcano, Hawaii 2015-05-15 00:42:47 UTC-04:00 2.8 km
4.8 53km W of Neiafu, Tonga 2015-05-14 23:42:44 UTC-04:00 71.4 km
5.1 34km E of Iwaki, Japan 2015-05-14 23:30:34 UTC-04:00 40.4 km
2.5 6km SW of Volcano, Hawaii 2015-05-14 22:56:44 UTC-04:00 2.4 km
4.7 72km ENE of Chernabura Island, Alaska 2015-05-14 22:54:41 UTC-04:00 21.0 km
4.9 32km NE of Bharatpur, Nepal 2015-05-14 21:42:42 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
2.6 6km SW of Volcano, Hawaii 2015-05-14 21:24:29 UTC-04:00 2.7 km
2.9 25km SE of Mammoth Lakes, California 2015-05-14 19:57:56 UTC-04:00 6.8 km
5.1 138km S of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea 2015-05-14 19:54:31 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
2.5 7km SW of Volcano, Hawaii 2015-05-14 17:30:36 UTC-04:00 2.2 km
Wreckage of missing U.S. helicopter found in Nepal; no survivors-Reuters By Gopal Sharma and Tommy Wilkes-MAY 15,15-YAHOONEWS
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - The wreckage of a U.S. military helicopter lost on an earthquake relief mission in Nepal was found on Friday high on a mountainside, with all eight on board presumed dead, U.S. officials said.A U.S. search team identified the wreckage as that of the missing Marines UH-1Y Huey helicopter deployed after the Himalayan state was hit by a massive earthquake last month that killed more than 8,000 people.Crash debris was found 8 miles (13 km) north of the town of Charikot near dense forest and rugged terrain-"It was a very severe crash. We believe there were no survivors," said John Wissler, lieutenant general of the U.S. Marines.The Huey went missing while it was distributing aid on Tuesday, the day a strong aftershock hit Nepal and killed more than 100 people.Six Marines and two Nepali soldiers were on board when it went missing, after the crew was heard over the radio saying the aircraft was experiencing a fuel problem.The Huey, an iconic helicopter dating back to the Vietnam War era, was completely destroyed, Nepal's top defense ministry official said."As the helicopter has broken into pieces and totally crashed there is no chance of any survivors," Nepal's defense secretary Ishwori Prasad Paudyal said earlier on Friday.
HUNDREDS INVOLVED IN SEARCH
After a three-day search the Huey was spotted near the village of Ghorthali at an altitude of 11,200 ft (3,400 m), an army general told Reuters earlier, as helicopters and Nepali ground troops converged on the crash site."It was found on a steep slope," Major General Binoj Basnet said. U.S. and Nepali teams investigated the site on Friday in an attempt to determine the cause of the crash.On Saturday, U.S. and Nepalese aircraft plan to get their rescue team back up to the site to collect the bodies and begin identification of the charred remains.The area's tallest peak soars to more than 7,000 meters (23,000 ft). Hillsides are cloaked with lush forest that made it hard to find the chopper even though it came down just a few miles from Charikot, the capital of Dolakha district that lies half a day's drive to the east of Kathmandu.An army base in the town has been serving as a hub for operations to airlift and treat those injured in the two earthquakes, and Prime Minister Sushil Koirala flew in on Thursday for an on-the-spot briefing.The first quake, which struck on April 25 with a magnitude of 7.8, has killed 8,199 people. The death toll from a 7.3 aftershock on Tuesday has reached 117, with many victims in Dolakha.The combined toll is approaching the number of just over 8,500 who died in an earthquake in 1934, the worst natural disaster on record to hit Nepal.Some 76,000 more have been injured, while hundreds of thousands of buildings, including ancient temples and monuments, have been damaged or destroyed. Nearly three weeks after the first quake, aftershocks continue to rattle the country.Nepal mobilized 600 soldiers to search for the missing Huey.Two more U.S. Hueys, two MV-22B Osprey tilt-rotor planes and Nepali and Indian choppers had been involved in the search for the helicopter, which was part of a joint task force sent in by the United States to provide assistance at Nepal's request.U.S. officials said the crash would not affect ongoing relief operations."We will continue to stand by Nepal as long as they need our help," Wissler told reporters.(Additional reporting by Ross Adkin in KATHMANDU and Krista Mahr and Rupam Jain Nair in NEW DELHI; Writing by Douglas Busvine; Editing by Frank Jack Daniel and Alex Richardson)
Nepal rescuers find 3 bodies near crashed US Marine chopper-Associated Press By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA and NIRMALA GEORGE-MAY 15,15-YAHOONEWS
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepalese rescuers on Friday found three bodies near the wreckage of a U.S. Marine helicopter that disappeared this week during a relief mission in the earthquake-hit Himalayan nation, and officials said it was unlikely there were any survivors from the crash."The wreckage of the helicopter was found in pieces, and there are no chances of any survivors," Nepal's defense secretary, Iswori Poudyal said. He did not give the nationalities of the three victims, only saying their remains were charred. The helicopter was carrying six Marines and two Nepalese army soldiers.A separate team sent by the U.S. Marines said they identified the wreckage as the missing helicopter, the UH-1 "Huey."Lt. Gen. John Wissler, commander of the Marine-led joint task force, told reporters in Kathmandu that his team could not immediately identify the cause of the crash or identify the bodies found."It was very severe crash, and based on what we saw in the condition of the aircraft, we believe there were no survivors," he said.He said extreme weather and difficult terrain hampered his team's efforts to work at the crash site."Due to the extremely difficult terrain of the site of the mishap, below-freezing temperatures and violent winds and thunderstorms, I made the decision to cease the recovery efforts for this evening," he said. "We cannot afford to put U.S. or Nepalese service members at any further risk."The recovery mission will resume at first light Saturday.The wreckage was found about 24 kilometers (15 miles) from the town of Charikot, near where the aircraft went missing on Tuesday while delivering humanitarian aid to villages hit by two deadly earthquakes, according to the U.S. military joint task force in Okinawa, Japan.The area is near Gothali village in the district of Dolakha, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) northeast of Nepal's capital, Kathmandu.The discovery of the wreckage, first spotted by Nepalese ground troops and two army helicopters Friday, followed days of intense search involving U.S. and Nepalese aircraft and even U.S. satellites.The U.S. relief mission was deployed soon after a magnitude-7.8 quake hit April 25, killing more than 8,200 people. It was followed by another magnitude- 7.3 quake on Tuesday that killed 117 people and injured 2,800.The helicopter had been delivering rice and tarps in Charikot, the area worst hit by Tuesday's quake. It had dropped off supplies in one location and was en route to a second site when contact was lost.U.S. military officials said earlier this week that an Indian helicopter in the air nearby had heard radio chatter from the Huey aircraft about a possible fuel problem.A total of 300 U.S. military personnel have been supporting the aid mission in Nepal, which includes three Hueys, four Marine MV-22B Ospreys, two KC-130 Hercules and four Air Force C-17 Globemaster heavy-lift aircraft.The Huey helicopter that crashed was from Marine Light Attack Helicopter squadron 469 based at Camp Pendleton, California.___Associated Press writer Ken Moritsugu in Tokyo contributed to this report.
Philadelphia train crash engineer lays low as scrutiny heats up-Reuters By Jarrett Renshaw and Laila Kearney-MAY 15,15-YAHOONEWS
PHILADELPHIA/NEW YORK (Reuters) - A portrait of the engineer at the helm of a speeding Amtrak train that derailed in Philadelphia began to emerge on Thursday as the man's lawyer said his client could not remember the crash, and rescuers pulled an eighth body from the wreckage.With the engineer facing intense scrutiny over his role in the accident, Philadelphia police said they launched a criminal investigation into Tuesday's crash of the New York-bound train. The locomotive and all seven cars jumped the tracks while barreling into a curve at more than 100 miles per hour (160 km per hour), twice the speed limit.In the latest revelation of circumstances surrounding the crash, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said the train had inexplicably sped up from about 70 mph to 100-plus mph in the last 65 seconds before the crash, according to video from the locomotive's front-facing camera.The NSTB on Wednesday disclosed that the engineer, identified as Brandon Bostian, 32, had fully engaged the train's emergency braking system seconds before the wreck.But his attorney, Robert Goggin, said Bostian was unable to recall hitting the brakes or much else about the derailment, which left a trail of twisted metal and human carnage along the tracks, and injured more than 200 people.NTSB member Robert Sumwalt, updating reporters on the board's probe into the cause of the wreck, said the engineer has agreed to be interviewed by agency investigators, who were giving him a day or two to recuperate from his injuries first, and that he was entitled to be accompanied by his lawyer."We look very much forward to the opportunity to interview him. We appreciate that opportunity. We feel that interview will provide us a lot of information," Sumwalt said.While Bostian recovered in seclusion, bits and pieces about his life started to surface. A University of Missouri graduate with a business degree, he has been an engineer for more than four years after working with Amtrak as a conductor, according to his LinkedIn page. While in college, he worked in a Target Corp store.
Bostian, who hails from Memphis, Tennessee, was described as quiet and unassuming by people who crossed his path in Forest Hills, a middle-class section of Queens where he resides.Jose Quinones, 65, the superintendent of the large brick building where Bostian makes his home, said he was an easy-going tenant who had lived there for two or three years. While polite, Bostian mostly kept to himself, Quinones said.But Yochana Mashat, 58, who lives on the same floor as Bostian described his neighbor as standoffish.He said he regularly rode the elevator with Bostian but never spoke to him. "He's like a statue," Mashat said.Hours after the derailment, Bostian blacked out his Facebook Inc profile photo while dozens of his Facebook friends wrote comments, offering condolences and encouragement.Efforts to reach Bostian's relatives and social media connections were unsuccessful.
"REMEMBERS COMING INTO THE CURVE"
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter said the engineer spoke briefly with investigators in the hours after the crash but declined to be interviewed in depth.At a news briefing, Police Chief Inspector Joe Sullivan said his department was working with Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams on an investigation.Bostian was cooperating with authorities, according to Goggin, his lawyer, but had no memory of the crash and no explanation for what happened.“He remembers coming into the curve, he remembers attempting to reduce speed, but thereafter he was knocked out just like all the other passengers on the train,” Goggin said on ABC's "Good Morning America" program.Bostian, who suffered a concussion and gash to his head, does not recall deploying the emergency brakes, the lawyer said."We will have to wait for his memory to come back or for other facts to be ascertained by the NTSB," the lawyer said.Sumwalt said it was common for someone to suffer memory loss after a traumatic event.In his briefing to reporters on Thursday, Sumwalt said a track inspection in that stretch of railroad the day before the crash turned up nothing unusual, and tests of the train's brakes before it left Union Station in Washington on Tuesday likewise found no problems.Contrary to speculation that the driver might have been running late, Sumwalt also said the train had departed its previous stop 10 minutes earlier on time.While many questions about Tuesday's wreck remain unanswered, Sumwalt has said the derailment could have been avoided by an advanced safety system called "positive train control" (PTC), which automatically slows or halts trains moving too fast or heading into a danger zone. Amtrak said it aims to have the technology up and running between Washington and Boston by the end of the year, as required by law. For now, the rail line only has intermittent PTC service, an Amtrak official said.Authorities have accounted for all 243 people, including five crew, believed to have been on the train when it crashed, the mayor said.On Thursday morning, a cadaver dog found the body of a passenger in the twisted metal of the first car, Philadelphia Fire Commissioner Derrick Sawyer said.Litigation stemming from the wreck began on Thursday with the filing of a claim against Amtrak by an employee of the railway who said he was riding train No. 188 as a passenger and suffered a traumatic brain injury and other injuries. The lawsuit seeks more than $150,000 in damages.(Additional reporting by Susan Heavey in Washington and Curtis Skinner in San Francisco; Writing by Frank McGurty and Steve Gorman; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe, Toni Reinhold, Lisa Shumaker and Ken Wills)
OTHER NEPAL QUAKE STORIES
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/05/israel-67-years-old-today-may-1415.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/04/hundreds-to-thousands-dead-as-nepal.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/04/2300-dead-in-india-quake-as-67.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/04/4000-so-far-have-been-killed-in-nepal.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/04/4500-dead-8000-injured-in-nepal.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/04/over-5100-killed-10000-injured-in-78.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/04/5500-are-now-killed-in-nepal-78-quake.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/05/6000-are-now-killed-in-nepal-78.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/05/6700-are-now-killed-in-nepal-78.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/05/7000-are-now-killed-in-nepal-78.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/05/7100-are-now-killed-in-nepal-78.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/05/7367-are-now-killed-in-nepal-78.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/05/7700-are-now-killed-in-nepal-78.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/05/7710-are-now-killed-in-nepal-78.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/05/7759-are-now-killed-in-nepal-78.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/05/8019-are-now-killed-in-nepal-78.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/05/another-major-73-quake-in-nepal-today.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/05/8250-are-now-killed-in-nepal-78-73.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/05/8276-are-now-killed-in-nepal-78-73.html
EARTHQUAKES
ISAIAH 42:15
15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
UPDATE MAY 16,2015-12:00AM
8,476 ARE NOW KILLED IN THE NEPAL 7.8-7.3 QUAKES.19,721 INJURED.331,000 HOMES DESTROYED. AND WITH THIS NEW 7.3 QUAKE IN NEPAL.ANOTHER 117 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED AND 3,161 MORE INJURED.THIS 7.3 QUAKE COMES ONLY 17 DAYS AFTER THE 7.8 QUAKE.ALSO IN THIS 2ND QUAKE A HELECOPTER IS MISSING WITH 8 ABOARD.AND THEY SAY THIS LOOKS LIKE A GIANT GRAVEYARD IN NEPAL AND KHATMADU.SO JUST THINK WHAT HAPPENS TO ISLAM WHEN THEY COME AGAINST ISRAEL.AND 300 MILLION ISRAEL HATING RUSSIAN-MUSLIMS ARE NUKED.THIS NEPAL DOUBLE QUAKE IS A PREVIEW OF THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS SLAGHTER IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE.TO GET RID OF 1/4 OF ISLAM FOR KILLING JEWS AND CHRISTIANS AROUND THE WORLD.THE HELICOPTER HAS BEEN FOUND ON A MOUNTAIN.AND ALL 8 PEOPLE ON BOARD ARE KILLED.
UPDATE AFTERSHOCKS FROM 7.8-7.3 QUAKES AT NEPAL AT 11AM
5.3 South of Africa 2015-05-15 09:15:57 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
2.9 6km SW of Volcano, Hawaii 2015-05-15 08:29:18 UTC-04:00 2.7 km
4.7 Izu Islands, Japan region 2015-05-15 06:56:40 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
2.7 26km NNW of Pahala, Hawaii 2015-05-15 06:51:49 UTC-04:00 0.9 km
2.5 6km SW of Volcano, Hawaii 2015-05-15 06:40:32 UTC-04:00 3.2 km
5.5 70km N of Alotau, Papua New Guinea 2015-05-15 06:30:37 UTC-04:00 32.4 km
5.0 162km WSW of Vaini, Tonga 2015-05-15 06:21:36 UTC-04:00 161.4 km
2.5 5km SW of Volcano, Hawaii 2015-05-15 05:38:22 UTC-04:00 2.5 km
2.9 34km SW of Ferndale, California 2015-05-15 05:20:09 UTC-04:00 20.4 km
4.7 47km SW of Puerto San Jose, Guatemala 2015-05-15 05:08:26 UTC-04:00 35.0 km
2.6 6km SW of Volcano, Hawaii 2015-05-15 04:52:25 UTC-04:00 3.0 km
2.5 97km SE of McGrath, Alaska 2015-05-15 04:39:24 UTC-04:00 0.0 km
2.8 23km ENE of Mooreland, Oklahoma 2015-05-15 03:21:55 UTC-04:00 5.0 km
4.7 151km W of Lata, Solomon Islands 2015-05-15 02:35:01 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
4.6 41km N of La Serena, Chile 2015-05-15 02:05:24 UTC-04:00 52.1 km
4.3 119km SE of Iquique, Chile 2015-05-15 02:02:26 UTC-04:00 108.8 km
2.7 42km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico 2015-05-15 01:39:51 UTC-04:00 52.0 km
4.5 23km SSE of Blenheim, New Zealand 2015-05-15 01:34:35 UTC-04:00 10.4 km
3.1 2km WNW of Pawnee, Oklahoma 2015-05-15 01:29:54 UTC-04:00 5.0 km
2.8 7km SSW of Volcano, Hawaii 2015-05-15 01:10:05 UTC-04:00 3.5 km
3.6 110km N of Loiza, Puerto Rico 2015-05-15 00:51:31 UTC-04:00 86.0 km
2.8 68km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico 2015-05-15 00:47:12 UTC-04:00 61.0 km
2.7 6km SW of Volcano, Hawaii 2015-05-15 00:42:47 UTC-04:00 2.8 km
4.8 53km W of Neiafu, Tonga 2015-05-14 23:42:44 UTC-04:00 71.4 km
5.1 34km E of Iwaki, Japan 2015-05-14 23:30:34 UTC-04:00 40.4 km
2.5 6km SW of Volcano, Hawaii 2015-05-14 22:56:44 UTC-04:00 2.4 km
4.7 72km ENE of Chernabura Island, Alaska 2015-05-14 22:54:41 UTC-04:00 21.0 km
4.9 32km NE of Bharatpur, Nepal 2015-05-14 21:42:42 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
2.6 6km SW of Volcano, Hawaii 2015-05-14 21:24:29 UTC-04:00 2.7 km
2.9 25km SE of Mammoth Lakes, California 2015-05-14 19:57:56 UTC-04:00 6.8 km
5.1 138km S of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea 2015-05-14 19:54:31 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
2.5 7km SW of Volcano, Hawaii 2015-05-14 17:30:36 UTC-04:00 2.2 km
Wreckage of missing U.S. helicopter found in Nepal; no survivors-Reuters By Gopal Sharma and Tommy Wilkes-MAY 15,15-YAHOONEWS
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - The wreckage of a U.S. military helicopter lost on an earthquake relief mission in Nepal was found on Friday high on a mountainside, with all eight on board presumed dead, U.S. officials said.A U.S. search team identified the wreckage as that of the missing Marines UH-1Y Huey helicopter deployed after the Himalayan state was hit by a massive earthquake last month that killed more than 8,000 people.Crash debris was found 8 miles (13 km) north of the town of Charikot near dense forest and rugged terrain-"It was a very severe crash. We believe there were no survivors," said John Wissler, lieutenant general of the U.S. Marines.The Huey went missing while it was distributing aid on Tuesday, the day a strong aftershock hit Nepal and killed more than 100 people.Six Marines and two Nepali soldiers were on board when it went missing, after the crew was heard over the radio saying the aircraft was experiencing a fuel problem.The Huey, an iconic helicopter dating back to the Vietnam War era, was completely destroyed, Nepal's top defense ministry official said."As the helicopter has broken into pieces and totally crashed there is no chance of any survivors," Nepal's defense secretary Ishwori Prasad Paudyal said earlier on Friday.
HUNDREDS INVOLVED IN SEARCH
After a three-day search the Huey was spotted near the village of Ghorthali at an altitude of 11,200 ft (3,400 m), an army general told Reuters earlier, as helicopters and Nepali ground troops converged on the crash site."It was found on a steep slope," Major General Binoj Basnet said. U.S. and Nepali teams investigated the site on Friday in an attempt to determine the cause of the crash.On Saturday, U.S. and Nepalese aircraft plan to get their rescue team back up to the site to collect the bodies and begin identification of the charred remains.The area's tallest peak soars to more than 7,000 meters (23,000 ft). Hillsides are cloaked with lush forest that made it hard to find the chopper even though it came down just a few miles from Charikot, the capital of Dolakha district that lies half a day's drive to the east of Kathmandu.An army base in the town has been serving as a hub for operations to airlift and treat those injured in the two earthquakes, and Prime Minister Sushil Koirala flew in on Thursday for an on-the-spot briefing.The first quake, which struck on April 25 with a magnitude of 7.8, has killed 8,199 people. The death toll from a 7.3 aftershock on Tuesday has reached 117, with many victims in Dolakha.The combined toll is approaching the number of just over 8,500 who died in an earthquake in 1934, the worst natural disaster on record to hit Nepal.Some 76,000 more have been injured, while hundreds of thousands of buildings, including ancient temples and monuments, have been damaged or destroyed. Nearly three weeks after the first quake, aftershocks continue to rattle the country.Nepal mobilized 600 soldiers to search for the missing Huey.Two more U.S. Hueys, two MV-22B Osprey tilt-rotor planes and Nepali and Indian choppers had been involved in the search for the helicopter, which was part of a joint task force sent in by the United States to provide assistance at Nepal's request.U.S. officials said the crash would not affect ongoing relief operations."We will continue to stand by Nepal as long as they need our help," Wissler told reporters.(Additional reporting by Ross Adkin in KATHMANDU and Krista Mahr and Rupam Jain Nair in NEW DELHI; Writing by Douglas Busvine; Editing by Frank Jack Daniel and Alex Richardson)
Nepal rescuers find 3 bodies near crashed US Marine chopper-Associated Press By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA and NIRMALA GEORGE-MAY 15,15-YAHOONEWS
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepalese rescuers on Friday found three bodies near the wreckage of a U.S. Marine helicopter that disappeared this week during a relief mission in the earthquake-hit Himalayan nation, and officials said it was unlikely there were any survivors from the crash."The wreckage of the helicopter was found in pieces, and there are no chances of any survivors," Nepal's defense secretary, Iswori Poudyal said. He did not give the nationalities of the three victims, only saying their remains were charred. The helicopter was carrying six Marines and two Nepalese army soldiers.A separate team sent by the U.S. Marines said they identified the wreckage as the missing helicopter, the UH-1 "Huey."Lt. Gen. John Wissler, commander of the Marine-led joint task force, told reporters in Kathmandu that his team could not immediately identify the cause of the crash or identify the bodies found."It was very severe crash, and based on what we saw in the condition of the aircraft, we believe there were no survivors," he said.He said extreme weather and difficult terrain hampered his team's efforts to work at the crash site."Due to the extremely difficult terrain of the site of the mishap, below-freezing temperatures and violent winds and thunderstorms, I made the decision to cease the recovery efforts for this evening," he said. "We cannot afford to put U.S. or Nepalese service members at any further risk."The recovery mission will resume at first light Saturday.The wreckage was found about 24 kilometers (15 miles) from the town of Charikot, near where the aircraft went missing on Tuesday while delivering humanitarian aid to villages hit by two deadly earthquakes, according to the U.S. military joint task force in Okinawa, Japan.The area is near Gothali village in the district of Dolakha, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) northeast of Nepal's capital, Kathmandu.The discovery of the wreckage, first spotted by Nepalese ground troops and two army helicopters Friday, followed days of intense search involving U.S. and Nepalese aircraft and even U.S. satellites.The U.S. relief mission was deployed soon after a magnitude-7.8 quake hit April 25, killing more than 8,200 people. It was followed by another magnitude- 7.3 quake on Tuesday that killed 117 people and injured 2,800.The helicopter had been delivering rice and tarps in Charikot, the area worst hit by Tuesday's quake. It had dropped off supplies in one location and was en route to a second site when contact was lost.U.S. military officials said earlier this week that an Indian helicopter in the air nearby had heard radio chatter from the Huey aircraft about a possible fuel problem.A total of 300 U.S. military personnel have been supporting the aid mission in Nepal, which includes three Hueys, four Marine MV-22B Ospreys, two KC-130 Hercules and four Air Force C-17 Globemaster heavy-lift aircraft.The Huey helicopter that crashed was from Marine Light Attack Helicopter squadron 469 based at Camp Pendleton, California.___Associated Press writer Ken Moritsugu in Tokyo contributed to this report.
Philadelphia train crash engineer lays low as scrutiny heats up-Reuters By Jarrett Renshaw and Laila Kearney-MAY 15,15-YAHOONEWS
PHILADELPHIA/NEW YORK (Reuters) - A portrait of the engineer at the helm of a speeding Amtrak train that derailed in Philadelphia began to emerge on Thursday as the man's lawyer said his client could not remember the crash, and rescuers pulled an eighth body from the wreckage.With the engineer facing intense scrutiny over his role in the accident, Philadelphia police said they launched a criminal investigation into Tuesday's crash of the New York-bound train. The locomotive and all seven cars jumped the tracks while barreling into a curve at more than 100 miles per hour (160 km per hour), twice the speed limit.In the latest revelation of circumstances surrounding the crash, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said the train had inexplicably sped up from about 70 mph to 100-plus mph in the last 65 seconds before the crash, according to video from the locomotive's front-facing camera.The NSTB on Wednesday disclosed that the engineer, identified as Brandon Bostian, 32, had fully engaged the train's emergency braking system seconds before the wreck.But his attorney, Robert Goggin, said Bostian was unable to recall hitting the brakes or much else about the derailment, which left a trail of twisted metal and human carnage along the tracks, and injured more than 200 people.NTSB member Robert Sumwalt, updating reporters on the board's probe into the cause of the wreck, said the engineer has agreed to be interviewed by agency investigators, who were giving him a day or two to recuperate from his injuries first, and that he was entitled to be accompanied by his lawyer."We look very much forward to the opportunity to interview him. We appreciate that opportunity. We feel that interview will provide us a lot of information," Sumwalt said.While Bostian recovered in seclusion, bits and pieces about his life started to surface. A University of Missouri graduate with a business degree, he has been an engineer for more than four years after working with Amtrak as a conductor, according to his LinkedIn page. While in college, he worked in a Target Corp store.
Bostian, who hails from Memphis, Tennessee, was described as quiet and unassuming by people who crossed his path in Forest Hills, a middle-class section of Queens where he resides.Jose Quinones, 65, the superintendent of the large brick building where Bostian makes his home, said he was an easy-going tenant who had lived there for two or three years. While polite, Bostian mostly kept to himself, Quinones said.But Yochana Mashat, 58, who lives on the same floor as Bostian described his neighbor as standoffish.He said he regularly rode the elevator with Bostian but never spoke to him. "He's like a statue," Mashat said.Hours after the derailment, Bostian blacked out his Facebook Inc profile photo while dozens of his Facebook friends wrote comments, offering condolences and encouragement.Efforts to reach Bostian's relatives and social media connections were unsuccessful.
"REMEMBERS COMING INTO THE CURVE"
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter said the engineer spoke briefly with investigators in the hours after the crash but declined to be interviewed in depth.At a news briefing, Police Chief Inspector Joe Sullivan said his department was working with Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams on an investigation.Bostian was cooperating with authorities, according to Goggin, his lawyer, but had no memory of the crash and no explanation for what happened.“He remembers coming into the curve, he remembers attempting to reduce speed, but thereafter he was knocked out just like all the other passengers on the train,” Goggin said on ABC's "Good Morning America" program.Bostian, who suffered a concussion and gash to his head, does not recall deploying the emergency brakes, the lawyer said."We will have to wait for his memory to come back or for other facts to be ascertained by the NTSB," the lawyer said.Sumwalt said it was common for someone to suffer memory loss after a traumatic event.In his briefing to reporters on Thursday, Sumwalt said a track inspection in that stretch of railroad the day before the crash turned up nothing unusual, and tests of the train's brakes before it left Union Station in Washington on Tuesday likewise found no problems.Contrary to speculation that the driver might have been running late, Sumwalt also said the train had departed its previous stop 10 minutes earlier on time.While many questions about Tuesday's wreck remain unanswered, Sumwalt has said the derailment could have been avoided by an advanced safety system called "positive train control" (PTC), which automatically slows or halts trains moving too fast or heading into a danger zone. Amtrak said it aims to have the technology up and running between Washington and Boston by the end of the year, as required by law. For now, the rail line only has intermittent PTC service, an Amtrak official said.Authorities have accounted for all 243 people, including five crew, believed to have been on the train when it crashed, the mayor said.On Thursday morning, a cadaver dog found the body of a passenger in the twisted metal of the first car, Philadelphia Fire Commissioner Derrick Sawyer said.Litigation stemming from the wreck began on Thursday with the filing of a claim against Amtrak by an employee of the railway who said he was riding train No. 188 as a passenger and suffered a traumatic brain injury and other injuries. The lawsuit seeks more than $150,000 in damages.(Additional reporting by Susan Heavey in Washington and Curtis Skinner in San Francisco; Writing by Frank McGurty and Steve Gorman; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe, Toni Reinhold, Lisa Shumaker and Ken Wills)
